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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
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Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem?
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Date: 29 Jan 93 16:12:26 GMT
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In article <wagner.985.728099462@main.mndly.umn.edu> wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) writes:

>This would make my life much easier for installing this.  I haven't been
>able to find such a beast on any of the FTP sites listed in the FAQ.  Can
>anybody point me to such a thing, if it exists?

Considering that tar doesn't handle the device entries in /dev/*, you're
probably not going to find any such image.

The bin01 distribution is effectively a cpio image of the base filesystem;
the etc01 and src01 distributions are also cpio images of those respective
sections. Why are you not using them? They can be unpacked easily:

	cat bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -ocvdum

in whatever directory you want the hierarchy extracted into.


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